| Type | S.A. |
|---|---|
| Industry | Shipbuilding |
| Founded | 1937/1957 |
| Founder | Stavros Niarchos |
| Headquarters | , Greece |
| Products | Ships, submarines, railcars |
| Owner | George Prokopiou (100%) [1] |
Number of employees | 1,300 (2009) |
| Website | www |
Hellenic Shipyards S.A. is a large shipyard in Skaramagas, in West Athens regional unit, Greece founded in 1937 as a warship building company.
Commonly known as Skaramaga Shipyards (Greek: Ναυπηγεία Σκαραμαγκά), from the area where they are located, its origins are connected with the Royal Hellenic Naval Shipyard created in 1937 in order to build warships. Despite heavy investment and an order of 12 destroyers and a number of submarines (of which 2 destroyers were in initial stages of construction), development ceased due to the Second World War while in 1944 the facilities were virtually destroyed by Allied bombing. [2] Operation started in 1957 when Greek business tycoon Stavros Niarchos purchased the ruined shipyard and rebuilt and expanded its facilities; since then the company has built many civilian and military ships.
Military constructions include Greek-designed fast patrol boats and gunboats, as well as frigates, fast attack crafts, submarines, etc. based on French or German designs. A company division is involved in metal and machinery constructions, including specialized constructions for the Greek industry, structures and platforms for offshore drilling, cranes, etc. A special branch has also been created since 1986, for the mass production of various types of railcars (diesel and electric) and railroad cars (passenger and freight), mostly on German designs.
The company was bought in 2002 by a group of German investors under the industrial leadership of the German shipyard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), later a subsidiary of the German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems. However, serious yard mismanagement by the German TKMS group has caused a decline of the shipyard, and reduction of employees to 1,300 in 2009 (from about 6,200 in 1975). [3]
On March 1, 2010, an agreement was reached to sell 75.1% of the company to Abu Dhabi Mar. [4] [5]
Greece's finance ministry had launched an international tender for the privatisation of the largest eastern Mediterranean shipyard "Skaramanga shipyard". [6]
Several ship types, commercial (general cargo, bulk carriers, tankers, tugboats, super yachts, ferries and other passenger ships) and military, among which:
Thousands of ships, among which:
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